, 1887-08-25

like the cholera. l. has now stcFcE !
San Jose and it seems to nave il very /
bad. There are some symptoms il |
Port Townsend, but not sufficient 10 !
warrant quarantine.
1t is very probable that Hcnry =. |
Stanley is alive. Letters have been |
received from him dated June 10Th. |
He WAS then well and the expedition |
was ali right. It Is hoped that the
report of his death is mistake.
The Tacoma Ledger man is a per
son of large ideas. In today's paper
he says:
The Port Townsend folks have
picked out professor for the Puget
Sound University which Is to be 10
Gated near Tacoma"
Yes, only seventy miles away from
Tacama, on the shore Of Port Town
send bay, which is a tributary to Ia
coma bay, which is tributary to Ia
coma ocean, and is in the state of Ia
coma ~ and is situated III the Ta-
coma hemisphere of the planet of Ia
coma. Close by, a mere suburb, you
know.
The last number of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle received here CON
tains the usual mess of abuse Of the
customs district of Puget Sound.
Jealousy of the growing importance
OF this district is one of the weaknesses
OF the Bay City. The ISLANDERS of the
Chronicle are simply the voicing Of
that jealousy. The republication, by
our local press, of these falsa and
malicious ealumnies amounts to an
endorsement OF them by rs, and gives
to the lies of the Chronicle stand
ing and character abroad that they
would not otherwise possess. This
course on the part of our local press
is not only unjust but suicidal. and if
persisted in, will prove most in
furious to the district, as it will have
the effect to throw upon it such q
cloud of discredit as to ef1ectually
prevent any further action by con
gress OF fayorably character in our
behalf. 1t strikes us that the news
papers of Puget Sound are amply
able to take care of their own district
without calling for aid from the
Chronicle or any other outsider.
The S. f. Chronicle is attacking
the Puget Sound customs officials
with ferocity that suggests black
mail and ealumny. It is trying 10
prove too much. No one seriously
believes that 4. L. Blake was mur
dered; he was i'll and demented when
he left here; and in many respects
there is manifest going beyond all
reason. And again, what earthly ex.-
cuse is there for dragging Deputy
Harmed, or Collector Brooks. or Capt.
Glover into the affair? They are all
gentlemen evidently trying to do
their full duty all the time. If the
bloodthirsty scribe OF the Chronicle
knew little more Of what lie writes
about he would find that they are by
no means the thieves and pickpockets
he affects to believe. Capt. Beecher
is painted SO black, and such scurri-
lous abuse is heaped upon him, that
it must of necessity oyerleap itself
Air. Harmed is one OF the most palms.
taking, conscientious officials in the
country, while the present Collector
came upon the scene long after the
matters complained of took place.
The most ardent partisans, when they
read the Chronicles attacks, feel CON
strained to cry ont ''for shamer'
Probably, to an American, accus-
toned to freedom and breathing the
air OF liberty, no act in the drama os
Ireland's coercion rankles more deep
ly than the recent determination of
the Tory government to proclaim
the Irish National League" That
Irelands patriots cannot even meet
to consider measures for the common
good, that NO organization for mutu-
al helpfulness can exist, is indeed an
act of tyranny hardly credible. If
England had fully decided 10 stir up
a cival war in Ireland, her acts could
not be very different from what they
are. We confess to great surprise
that hot, Irish blood WI stand as
much as it does. Tho the power of
conquest and the inter marrying of
the nobility has placed he fefdoia
of nearly all ireland IL English
hands, and now the the Irishman, in
the land of his ancestors, has no
rights that foreign lords are bound
to respect. We cannot hut believe
that Gladstone is proVidential man
to right this wrong. If it cannot be
righted we are in favor Of an entire
dsnopulation of Ireland. Let every
son and daughter of the Emerald
Isle come over to free America. 1t
canno. be forgotten that they are
bone of our bone and flesh of our
flesh. 1t need not be denied that rs
much aggressive energy and grand
capabiity lies il the irish progeny
as in any race en earth. 1t must be
that this people viii have the pro-
found sympathy OF all civilized men
on thu face OF the earth Wnen they
protest against proclamation their
protest will find an echo III around